Melissa was a news intern in Mashable's NYC office during the spring of 2014. She graduated from the University of Rochester in December 2013 and has also worked at WXXI News, Community Newspaper Group, Upbeat Productions and Rochester's City Newspaper. You can follow her on Twitter if you do that kind of thing: @mgoldin8

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